In music, this is exactly what we do when we improvise. We need to be able to pick things up and turn them around in our hands, and look at them from all different angles.
But we humans need to examine things for ourselves in order to understand them. When most people think of ear training, they imagine sitting in a classroom or using an ear training app that puts them in the passive role of just listening to sounds and trying to identify them. In IFR, ear training is integrated into every note we play, so that our jamming BECOMES our ear training!ģ) Exploring the sounds creatively. It's like saying that part of the time you're going to play your instrument, and the other part of the time you're going to actually listen to the sounds. The moment you relegate ear training off to its own little island, divorced from your playing and your creativity, you're already doomed to fail. You just need to take the time to clarify which sound is which.Ģ) A fully integrated music practice. So you already know these sounds intimately. This is how our ear works naturally, and this is how you are able to appreciate music in the first place. Each note of the major scale produces a very particular sound which you already recognize in the music all around you. We focus instead on the sound of each note relative to the overall key of the music. In IFR, we don't focus on interval relationships between random notes.
MUSIC INTERVALAS EAR PRACTICE SERIES
It's a mistake to treat music as a series of unrelated intervals. Here's how we're going to do it:ġ) Studying the sounds melodically. And it's such an essential part of IFR that you're definitely going to learn this ability. As you've discovered for yourself, getting better scores on interval quizzes has almost nothing to do with understanding real music.īut understanding music by ear is something everyone can do. I don't think I've ever met a single musician who actually learned to play by ear using apps and interval training. I understand your frustration completely. But I have yet to recognize a single note when listening to real music! Can you give me any guidance? I have tried interval recognition apps, functional ear training and even a perfect pitch course. I have tried many different methods of ear training over the years and I'm totally confused.
Even very simple stuff I just couldn't hear. My main source of frustration was that I couldn't play anything at all by ear. I played for a number of years as a teenager but grew frustrated.
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